Senior Occupational Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Ormskirk; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking an Occupational Therapist to provide services for children with complex needs. The role involves assessments, creating individualized management plans, and collaborating with a dedicated therapy team. The ideal candidate will have experience in child development and a passion for promoting occupational engagement. This position supports flexible working arrangements and values diversity within the workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience in occupational therapy with children.
• Understanding of neurological and genetic conditions.
• Ability to support service provision and therapeutic intervention.

Responsibilities

• Provide occupational therapy service for children and young people.
• Manage a caseload of complex and additional needs.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments to determine interventions.
• Develop individualized treatment plans based on clinical reasoning.
• Lead training programmes for colleagues and parents/carers.

Skills

Child development understanding

Analytical skills

Ability to establish treatment plans

Team collaboration

Job description

Overview

We are specifically looking for an individual with passion and drive to deliver an effective service to children and young people with long term neurological and genetic conditions, with a particular interest in promoting occupational engagement for this client group and utilising compensatory/adaptive approaches. The successful applicant will be involved in supporting all aspects of service provision including: self‑management/universal support; targeted advice and strategies; specialist assessment, advice and therapeutic intervention; and highly specialist assessment and support.

We are investing in developing the clinical care pathway for this client group to ensure it achieves the best clinical outcomes for the population of children and young people in need of guidance, support and therapeutic intervention.

You will join our team of highly experienced and skilled therapists to offer a service, based in our West Lancashire team, working closely with physiotherapists and speech and language therapists in both clinic and community settings.

We are looking for individuals who already have a good understanding of child development and the challenges faced by this client group or who have transferable skills from other aspects of physical/neurological Occupational Therapy roles, such as postural assessment, equipment and seating provision and adaptions.

Responsibilities

• To work as part of children’s integrated therapy team providing an occupational therapy service for children referred for assessment and intervention.
• To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
• To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied presentations, using self‑determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.
• To establish individualized management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to formulate interventions and programmes of care.
• To participate in the co‑ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care and voluntary sector organisations, and parents/carers.
• To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
• To engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.
• To provide specialist advice to team colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
• To provide clinical and management supervision to junior colleagues.

Diversity and Inclusion

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under‑represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

Working Patterns

LSCFT supports flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi‑time.

Application Details

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Closing Date

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Dec 2025.